The Affluenza Teen ( Archived) (45)

"Should the mother be charged now that his son is detained in Mexico?

For those who are not familiar with the story, you can Google it and I am sure you will be interested to note how terrible it is to be free after killing four people and get away with it.

Note: Affluenza, what a term.

For those who are not familiar with the story, just Google, "Affluenza Teen" and the story of Ethan Couch from Texas would come up and give you the whole story.

Being a mother of four lovely children, I do know how it is to be a mother. I have one son with whom I love and adore very much. I am aware of the danger of spoiling a child when you become soft and let that child get away of everything.

My ex husband and I at least united in raising these children and instilled in their young minds that whatever they do, must not be anything that they don't want others to do it to them. That it is important to not harm or injure anyone. We believe in the "Ten Commandments" and the Golden Rule of which we practiced and follow.

Knock on wood, my children and all my grand children are still in good standing with the society they live in and the whole world.

If I look at the unfolding story of this case, it is very wrong for the parents to have been absolved on the accountability of this astronomical blunder and even more wrong for the judge to have thrown in a questionable verdict.sad flower

The concept is good, although there are more appropriate punishment I can think of. I would have incarcerated both parents and the child would have gone to a very serious rehabilitation.

After that, with good behaviour then they will be advocate of good parenting skills, that is after they have learned how to become good and effective parents.

"Ethan's father, Frederick Anthony "Fred" Couch, owns Cleburne Sheet Metal in Fort Worth, which has approximately thirty employees and yearly sales estimated at $15 million. His mother is Tonya Lennett (Pope) Couch. Ethan's parents were married in Johnson County, Texas in 1996 and divorced in 2007. Ethan grew up in Burleson and previously attended Anderson Private School.

Ethan Couch drove himself to school at the age of 13, and when the head of the school questioned it, Fred Couch threatened to buy the school. When he was 13, Ethan Couch was cited for "minor in consumption of alcohol" and "minor in possession of alcohol," after he was caught in a parked pick-up truck with a naked, passed out 14-year-old girl. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to probation, a compulsory alcohol awareness class, and 12 hours of community service.

Family history
Fred and Tonya have each had their own run-ins with the law, publicized retrospectively in the media following their son's conviction. Fred Couch has been charged with criminal mischief, theft by check, and assault, but the charges were dismissed. On August 19, 2014, he was arrested for impersonating a police officer, allegedly displaying a fake badge during a disturbance call. In 2013, Tonya Couch was sentenced to a $500 fine and a six-month community supervision order for reckless driving when she used her vehicle to force another motorist off the road.

Crash
On Saturday, June 15, 2013, according to authorities and trial testimony, Couch was witnessed on surveillance video stealing two cases of beer from a Walmart store, driving with seven passengers in his father's Ford F-350 pickup truck, and speeding (70 miles per hour (110 km/h) in a designated 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) zone). Three hours after the incident, he had a blood alcohol content of 0.24, three times the legal limit for adult drivers in Texas, and tested positive for Valium.

Approximately an hour after the beer theft, Couch was driving his father's truck at 70 MPH on a dark, rural road where motorist Breanna Mitchell's sport utility vehicle had stalled. Hollie Boyles and her daughter Shelby, who lived nearby, had come out to help her, as had passing youth minister Brian Jennings. Couch's truck swerved off the road and into Mitchell's SUV, then plowed into Jennings' parked car, which in turn hit an oncoming Volkswagen Beetle. The truck then flipped over and hit a tree. Mitchell, Jennings, and both Hollie and Shelby Boyles were killed, while Couch and his seven teen passengers (none wearing seat belts) survived, as did the two children in Jennings' car and the two people in the Volkswagen."

This story was supplied by one of my poster in the blog section..

Yes indeed, it is amazing how they could have been laughing at the system.

It brings me to the irresponsible verdict the judge put on the case.

That is the same question I ask What. I suspect, the judge herself who issued the verdict should and must be tried to. I have a gut feeling that she was bought out.

Why for that she was so lenient when in fact there are documents to show that run ins in the law pretty much defined their life.